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Show 98 TH BB Ret 2 Loe or cowflip, ten or twelve together, on flender, long footftalks, rifing from the fame point at the top of the mainftalk. The feed-veffel is oblong, andfurrowedlengthwife; and the feeds are numerous and{mall. It is a native of Germany, and flowersin July. C. Bauhine calls it Samicula montana latifolia Gans N whe lacinata. The common writers, Cortufa mathioli. Clafius, Suniucla al It is one of the famous wound-herbs of the Germans ; but its virtues are not eftablifhed by -S EA AU RIC U £ 2. HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, tubular in the lower part, and divided into five broad i fegments: the feed-veffel is fingle and oblong, and the cup is very fhort, and dividedinto five fegments : the leaves are flefhy. Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia, the threads in the Aower being five, and the rudiment of the capfule andits ftyle fingle: but he denies it to be a particular genus. He confiders it as a fpecies of cowflip. But fromthat genus it palpably differs in the fhortnefs of the cup, and the flethy fubftance of the leaves. He thus takes away its ufual and received name auvicula; a name we have introduced into our own language, though we in general pronounce it ill: the proper name of this plant dears ear beir neglected. Ourgardeners preferve the word auricula; but they fpeak it riculas. 1, Common yellow Auricula, It is a native of Germany and Switzerland, 4. Long-leaved Auricula. The root is a bunch of thickfibres, rifing from a fmall oblong head. The leaves are numerous, and they rife in a thick clufter: they are long, narrow, fharppointed, and undivided at the edges: they have no footftalks : their colour is a bright glofiy green on the upper-fide, and paler underneath. Theftalk rifes in the centre of the tuft, and is four inches high. The flowers grow in a fmall tuft at the top; often there are but two or three, rarely more than five: they are large, andirregularly divided into fegments, which are deeply cut in, andpointed in the divifions: the cup is tubulous and obufe. It isa native of Switzerland, and flowers in May. CC. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina rubefcens folio non ferrato. Others, Auricula longifolia. The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The leaves rife ina clufter, andare very{mall ; they have no footftalks, and they are of a very fingular fhape, narroweft at the bottom, broadeft at the top, and there deeply indented: the outer leaves of thefe little clufters are fmalleft, and the inner ones longeft and largeft, andof the frefheft green. The ftalks rife among th ; and are round, flender, fhort, and very minute, like the reft the plant. The flowers are large, and very beautiful: they are of a fnow-white fometimes, and fometimes they have a blufh of redifh. One commonly ftands on each ftalk, The feed-veflel is oblong, and the feeds are very minute. It is a native of Germany, April. C. Bauhine calls it & nea. Others, and flowers in with a greyith duft, fharp-pointed, and ferrated at the edges. Auricula vulgaris lutea. The root is compofed of a great many thick fibres, which fpread every way, and penetrate deep. Theleaves rife in a little clufter fix or eight together. ThE Ree Aer, and flowers in June. C. Bauhinecalls it Sanicula Alpina rotundifolia. Auricula folits oblongis integ r om EP -b RP Rs a any know n experience. Ure BE A RS eH BR SB Ac. vies _ They are broad, oblong, of a whitith colour, lightly ferrated at the edges, and of ‘a thick, flefhy fubftance. The ftalk is round, thick, four or five inches high, and naked. The flowers are large, open, and beautiful : they ftand in little clufter at the top of the ftalk, each having its own feparate footftalk. Theircolour is yellow; but in this thereis great variety. In natureit is of all the degrees of yellow, from the deepeft to the paleft, and to abfoJute white ; and culture introduces variegations of many more kinds. It is a native of Switzerland, and otherof the northern parts of Europe, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina lutea. Bauhine, Auricula urfi flore luteo. The flowers ftandin a clufter at the top, and are large, and of a bright red: eachhas its feparate long footftalk, and they ftand very upright. The feed-veffel. is oblong, and the feed minute. tis a native of the Apennines. I have fp mens ofit collected in its wild ftate there, which fhewit a perfe@ly diftiné fpecies ; as is alfo the next to be defcribed. There is no judging by what one fees in gardens, where the accident: occafioning varieties are endlefs : but in thefe collected wild there is no error. ine calls this Sax pina . Bauhine, i urfi anguftifolia coloré rubente. We, Redauric 3. Round-leaved red Auricula. J. Many of the auriculas defcribed as diftin& {pecies by authors, are no other than varieties of this plant rifing from cultare: but Linnzus is rafh in making all thofe we fee of that kind. There are three diftiné& and original {pecies of this genus; from thefe three, culture has raifed all that amazing and beautiful variety we fee in gardens; but not fromthis one. 2. Narrow-leaved red Auricula. Auricula anguftifolia flore rubente. The root is compofed of numerous, long, and flenderfibres. The leavesrife in a finall tuft ten or twelve together, and have no footftalks: they are long, narrow, of adeep green, more or lefs covered Gra The ftalk is three inches high, thick, naked; round, andof a pale colour. ‘ubrotundis flore rubente. The root confifts of a {mall head, and a creat multitudeof fibres. The leaves are numerous and ere&t : ftand ona kindof footftalks ; but thofe are rat a continuation of the bafe of the leaf, than any thing regularly demanding that name: th ‘ fhort, broad, roundith, and of a pale green : they are obtufe, and fharply ferrated, and of a fhy fubftance. The ftalk rifes in the centre, and is thick, firm, upright, nak and about four inches high. The flowe’ they ftanc having i The feed-veffe] v Ss Vy. NAVELWORT. ANDROSACE. HE flowerconfifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular, and of an ge. andis dividedinto five fegments at the ed ge. The feed-veffel is a fingle, round capfule, having only one cell, and is formed of one piece, pentangular, and dividedinto five fegments. : . . sh akin date, Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia, the threads in ftyle from the rudiment ofthe capfule fingle. but often purp: The flowers are white : they ftand at the tops of the k le tufts, after the mannerofthofe of the cowflip or auricula, each on its own longfoorftalk. SI Piscy attics ot the flower being five, andthe Androface Anéroface major. n the centre of this tuft rife the ftalks : th are numerous, k, flender, nak and about feven inches h commonly of a pale green, opening at the top: the cup 2. Hairy Navelwort. 1. Great Navelwort. t is long, flender, and has few fibres. aves rife in a thick tuft ; and are larg id fharplyferrated : they have nofootthey are of a pale green; and theyare lengthwife, in the manner of plantain oval formin the lower part, The root is long, flender, tough, divided into many parts, and covered with a blackith bark. The leaves rife in round tufts : they are numerous, very fmall, and oblong: they have no footftalks: their colour is a pale green, and they are very hairy. The ftalks rife in the centre of thefe tufts of leaves, oneufually from each: they are fmall, flender, , weak, and about three inches high. Thi no leaves on thefe, except a few at the top, which form a kind of general cup for the flowers. Fromthe fummit of the flalk, where the leaves grow, rife alfo ren or a Re dozen fhort pedicles, each ingle flower : thefe are large for the 3 andare « or of a At the topofthe ftalk, whe 1¢ lower-ftalks rife, there is a:fmali clufter of aves, which | cup. 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